Frank Shepard Fairey the 41 year old US LA based street artist renowned for his 2008 US presidential election poster ‘Hope’ of Barack Obama has been physically attacked after the opening of his exhibition at a Dutch Copenhagen gallery, resulting in a black eye and bruised ribs. Leftwing anarchists have been enraged following his involvement with a controversial mural referring to Fairey as an “Obama illuminati”. The mural commemorated the controversial demolition of a youth house that had become symbolic of the tensions between the fringe leftwing community and the establishment. Thought to be an establishment propagandist piece, the mural was vandalized by protestors with graffiti slogans “no peace” and “go home, Yankee hipster”. Fairey declined to report the incidents to police stating he was not a huge fan of the cops. Inspired by thedailybeast ow.ly/63efw image source Wikipedia ow.ly/63eF3 No peace go home Yankee hipster (August 20 2011)

Frank Shepard Fairey the 41 year old US LA based street artist renowned for his 2008 US presidential election poster ‘Hope’ of Barack Obama has been physically attacked after the opening of his exhibition at a Dutch Copenhagen gallery, resulting in a black eye and bruised ribs. Leftwing anarchists have been enraged following his involvement with a controversial mural referring to Fairey as an “Obama illuminati”. The mural commemorated the controversial demolition of a youth house that had become symbolic of the tensions between the fringe leftwing community and the establishment. Thought to be an establishment propagandist piece, the mural was vandalized by protestors with graffiti slogans “no peace” and “go home, Yankee hipster”. Fairey declined to report the incidents to police stating he was not a huge fan of the cops.

 

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